The address of this page is http://GollyGrantsOnline.com/4202-fnp-spring-2008.htm

 

PAD 4202, Funding for Nonprofits

Florida Atlantic University

Seq. No. 15679

Thursdays, 7:10 pm -- 10:00 p. m., Davie Campus, LA 240F

Term Beginning 1/5/2008, Ending 5/2/2008

 

 

Do you really want to be in this class?

Much of what you will learn in here is not written down anywhere, at least not in a well organized way. You will have to show up on time every time, having studied in advance the material below, and pay attention; and you well have to ask questions, then go out and study the additional materials that I direct you to. You can't be passive. By the way, if you are late or skip class or let your attention wander, you are sure to miss something important. And that's your tough luck.

I do not try very hard to be well organized. I launch into stream of consciousness lectures, and you get the point if you pay attention and ask questions, or you don't. If you don't, that too is your tough luck.

Bad things happen to people who do not follow my advice.

There are deadlines for turning in projects, and if you miss a deadline, there is no way to be sure what I will do with your late submission. Possibly I will accept it, but possibly I will also misplace it. (I'll try not to lose it;  but I  won't try very hard.)

There are formats and instructions to follow, and if you fail to comply with directions, there is no way to be sure your paper will be recognized and credited to you. (I'll try to credit your work to you, but I won't try very hard.)

How to reach me.

I am Jay S. Mendell, Professor of Nonprofit Management. I have no office, because I am  retired. My home phone is 954.597-0574 (okay to call seven days a week) and my cell phone is 954.895-6364. If you need to send me e-mail, use MendellJay@gmail.com and include in your subject line "I am a student in PAD 4202." It is a good idea to include one or more of your phone numbers.

On Web updates.

Several times a week you will please have to check this Web page for additions and clarifications. Please report broken links to the professor.

Lame excuses.

If you come up to me and say, "I have got to skip class next week to [insert your lame excuse here]," and I reply, "Okay," this does not mean I have excused you. It just means I have decided fume quietly. 

Arriving late and leaving early.

Arriving late and leaving early are especially infuriating variants of being absent. They will surely be tracked in the attendance log. See "unannounced quizzes" below.

Unannounced quizzes.

I will administer an open book, open notes quiz whenever I feel like it. (And I get the feeling often.) Favorite times are at the start of class, after the break, and just before I send you home. Your grade for a missed quiz will, of course, be a zero.

HW

Please be sure to word-process it and then write your name clearly in the upper right of each page. The same goes for all HW -- no long handwritten passages. If you have questions about this assignment, don't be bashful about calling or emailing me. But please don't wait until the last minute. Also, pay attention to grammar, spelling, and editing. Remember, if you bring the HW to me on time, I will let you do it over if it is less than HP work.

 
If I don't like your HW, but you have brought it in on the day it was due and personally placed it in my hands within two minutes of the scheduled time for start of the class, I'll have you do it over for a higher grade. But late HW will not be re-graded.

 

 

Reading Materials

There is nothing to buy. 

 

Free on the Internet. [PWSC] Proposal Writing Short Course from the Foundation Center. (http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html)

 

Free on the Internet. [FFA] Introduction to Fundraising for Archives.
(http://www.ncaonline.org.uk/materials/fundraising.pdf)

 

Free on the Internet. [FTK] Fundraising Toolkit.
 (http://www.ehtf.ca/fundraisetk.pdf)

 

Free on the Internet. [FIGG]. Fundraising Ideas.for Grassroots Groups
 (http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pc-cp/pubs/e/fr4gras1.htm)

  

Free on the Internet. [FTF] Face to Face.
 (http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pc-cp/pubs/e/Fac2Fac1.htm)

 

Free on the Internet. [BSF]. Black Sheep Fundraising. 
http://black-sheep-library.com  

 

Lesson: Where grants and gifts  monies are to be found.
Chapter Four of  FIGG, "The Four Types of Fundraising"

 

HW. Date Thu, Jan-24-2008 

Please be sure to word-process it and then write your name clearly in the upper right of each page. The same goes for all HW -- no long handwritten passages. If you have questions about this assignment, don't be bashful about calling or emailing me. But please don't wait until the last minute. Also, pay attention to grammar, spelling, and editing. Remember, if you bring the HW to me on time, I will let you do it over if it is less than HP work.

 

First, give me one or two sentences about your current job and future career. Then browse through this Web page and its links and give me one or two paragraphs of reflection on how the course content might advance your career. Don't comment on how convenient the Saturday class is or how you feel about the professor. Try to zero in on the course content (grantwriting and fundraising).

 

Lesson: Grantwriting

I have written a mock solicitation of a letter of inquiry (http://GollyGrantsOnline.com/download/RWF-Mock-request-for-proposal.PDF) and a responsive letter of inquiry (http://GollyGrantsOnline.com/download/SSS-Center-mock.PDF).

Remember, please, to download and print the Proposal Writing Short Course from the Foundation Center. (http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html). Notice the model of the parts of a proposal. You don't have to submit anything in writing, but I wish you would reflect on why the Foundation Center model does not include "objectives" between need and program/project.

 

HW. Date Thu Jan-31-2008    

Now here is HW due at the start of class Write your name clearly in the upper right of each page you turn in., etc., etc.

     

Go to the Foundation Center web site (http://atgdata.fdncenter.org/990search/search.php) and download the tax form 990 of the House of Hope in Fort Lauderdale. (Be sure to get the HoH in Fort Lauderdale. Any year will do.) Print the first page and put your name in the upper right.)

    Go to the Foundation Center web site (http://lnp.fdncenter.org/finder_990.html) and download the tax form 990PF (any year) of the Abraham Foundation of Miami. Somewhere in there is a list of the charities the foundation funded . Print the list and put your name on each sheet.

    There is nothing to write except your name on each page.

 

Lesson: The parts of a proposal

PWSC complete

 

To condense an existing proposal as a concept paper (http://gollygrantsonline.com/grants-central-station.htm#Examples%20of%20grant%20proposals)
 

HW, Date Thu, Feb-7-2008. Remember, please, if you have not done so (where have you been?) to download and print the Proposal Writing Short Course from the Foundation Center . (http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html).

Go to http://gollygrantsonline.com/download/YMCA%20Broward%20Children's%20Services%20Board%20%202000-2001%20Proposal.PDF (best is to right click on it, download it to your harddrive ("Save Target As ..."), then open it using Adobe Acrobat), a rather long proposal. Skip to "II. Statement of Need," and chop it down to 100-120 carefully chosen words. It might help if you read more than "Statement of Need," the better to understand the context. (Let's see how well you do before I tell you how to do it.) Be sure to write your name in the upper right, and also right the number of words you used.

 

Please remember to print a copy of the YMCA proposal (http://gollygrantsonline.com/download/YMCA%20Broward%20Children's%20Services%20Board%20%202000-2001%20Proposal.PDF) and bring it to class. (If you are a procrastinator, please print it now. If you are absent-minded, please put a copy in the glove compartment of your car or in the pocket of whatever you plan to wear on Saturday. Focus, focus, focus, please.)

 

HW. Due Thu, Feb-14-2008 .

 

Imagine that you are on the review panel that has to decide who will receive funding for their proposal. Read the YMCA proposal skeptically and decide what you wish the YMCA had not written. Give me 400-600 words, please, on what should have been left out and why leaving it out would have improved your willingness to fund the proposal. (I may read your HW out loud in class.)

 

HW. Due Thu Feb-28-2008

 

Use databases to seek nationwide grant availability in support of affordable housing (i. e., not confined to particular locations). Use grants.gov for federal grants, Florida Resource Directory for State of Florida grants, and GrantsSelect for foundation grants. If necessary, use Google.com to find alternative nomenclature for "affordable housing."

 

Lesson: To identify government and foundation potential funders.

For state grants, Florida Resources Directory.

 The Florida Resource Directory is a searchable database which can be searched by Agency, Category of Assistance, Program or Keyword as shown below. Once you have found a program in which you are interested, you can print the page or access the associated website and/or link to the program's contact for more detailed information and/or an application.

Corporate grants to nonprofits (keyword searches) Visit http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantmaker/gws_corp/corp1.html  

Private foundations and charities (keyword searches) Visit   http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantmaker/gws_priv/priv1.html, then http://fdncenter.org/funders/grantmaker/gws_pubch/pubch1.html  

The Foundation Center's complete database may be consulted at four locations in the Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. In WPB, go to the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties. In Boca Raton, a few blocks east of FAU is the Junior League of Boca Raton. In Fort Lauderdale, Nova University is the archive, and in Miami, the United Way.    

 

In the FAU library online, go to GrantSelect.

Lesson: Prospecting for gifts from generous people. Visit http://gollygrantsonline.com/prospecting-for-grants-and-gifts.htm Private foundations and charities (keyword searches)

Thinking Ahead

First let me remind you to visit Introduction to Fundraising for Archives.
Free on the Internet.(http://www.ncaonline.org.uk/materials/fundraising.pdf)  and print and read Ch 3 and also let me strongly suggest you visit Fundraising Ideas.

Free on the Internet. (http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pc-cp/pubs/e/fr4gras1.htm) and print and read 

Ch. 8, "Institutional grantors," and Ch. 9, "Major individual donors"    

 

Here is some material that we will use in the next few weeks. You do not have to deal with it now. It is for future use.

1. Free on the Internet. Select sites on prospect research 
   (http://GollyGrantsOnline.com/prospect-research-links.htm)
2. Free on the Internet. Tutorial on prospect research
   (http://www.lambresearch.com/)
3. Free on the Internet. Comprehensive list for prospect research (http://www.executivelibrary.com/Prospect.asp)
4. Free on the Internet. Combined tutorial and select list   
   (http://www.zimmerman-lehman.com/internet.htm)
5. Free on the Internet. Power structure research (http://www.uoregon.edu/~vburris/whorules/)
6. Free on the Internet  Search Engine Watch 
   (http://www.searchenginewatch.com/links/index.php)

7.     Free on the Internet  Here is Sun-Sentinel's list of power brokers in Palm Beach county (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/custom/htmlpage/sfl-brokerspalmgallery630.story).

HW. Date TBA.

Here is Hw for next Saturday.

Chapter 3 of  Fundraising for Archives lists several components of a case statement, including "Interest." Here are links to several case statements. Please read them carefully and give me 100 words on how each case statement was likely to be effective in reaching prospects. Did they rouse your interest? That's 100 words on each case statement.

 

1. Kidney Dialysis Center (http://www.medcenterone.com/PDF/Case%20Statement.pdf)
2. Oakland University (http://www2.oakland.edu/oakland/ouportal/file_repository/campaign/Casestatement.pdf)
3. Tradeswomen Now and Then (http://www.tradeswomennow.org/resources/publications/CaseStatement.pdf)
4. Miami Museum (http://www.miamisci.org/www/mediadocs/MMOS_New_Case_Statement.PDF)
5. United Way (http://www.mankatounitedway.org/Display/40/124/pdfs/2004_UW_CASE_STATEMENT.pdf)

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HW. Data TBA.

Many urban persons in Broward own farmland elsewhere and receive agricultural subsidies (http://www.answers.com/farm%20subsidies). 

One of Broward's lowest income neighborhoods is in postal code 33311. Visit the Nation's Farm Subsidy Database (http://www.ewg.org/farm/) and discover if anyone in this supposedly impoverished area (33311) is receiving an agricultural subsidy.

 

Fundraising

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FFA, Ch. 3, "The Funding Cycle"

Prospect research (newspaper archives, Google, property appraiser, etc.)

 

FIGG. Ch. 8, "Institutional grantors"

       Ch. 9, "Major individual donors"     

 

FTK . Section I, "Case for Support" p5,. p27

"Donor Prospects" p.29

Section III all